Tennyson v. Green

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment, after a hearing on the merits, perpetuating a temporary injunction previously granted, restraining appellant, Mrs. Rebecca S. Tennyson, a feme sole, from draining the water accumulating in a natural lake located on her farm land onto the adjacent farm of appellee, Mrs. Maud Green, a feme sole.

Appellant owned 179 acres of land situated in Wilbarger County, Texas, of which 140 acres was planted in alfalfa. Her said tract of land was almost square in shape. North of appellee’s farm and adjacent thereto appellant owned a large tract…